A man with a lanyard holds papers and speaks to nearby participants in a dark rehearsal space.

Marlowe Theatre2026

RSC CPD

The Production

A Royal Shakespeare Company and Marlowe Theatre CPD event for teachers, connected to the RSC Associate Schools Programme at the Marlowe Theatre in Canterbury. The session supported active, rehearsal-room approaches to teaching Shakespeare in schools.

16 photographs in the curated edit

Commissioned by: Royal Shakespeare Company / The Marlowe Theatre
Director: Royal Shakespeare Company
Photography: Steve Gregson

A group of participants stand in a wide circle on a black-box theatre stage, with chairs and tiered seating around the edges.

Two women talk and laugh together in a dark backstage rehearsal area, one clasping her hands as she smiles.

Participants work in pairs across a black stage, including one woman leaning toward a man kneeling on the floor with his hands outstretched.

Small groups sit and stand on a black stage reading printed scripts, with two participants seated on the floor discussing pages.

A man with a lanyard gestures broadly while speaking to a participant, with empty chairs behind them in the rehearsal room.

Two women read from printed scripts in the foreground, one speaking with an expressive open mouth while others rehearse behind them.

A facilitator gestures to participants gathered in a circle on a spacious black-box stage, many holding scripts.

Rows of over-ear headphones with glowing blue and pink lights sit on a table beneath a framed information sign.

Two visitors wearing illuminated headphones look at a red wall display about a Hamlet project in a white gallery space.

A woman kneels on a dark stage with clasped hands, looking up pleadingly toward a small group of standing participants in the foreground.

Three participants in a black-box rehearsal space laugh together while holding printed scripts, one gesturing animatedly with a sheet of paper.

A group of participants stands in a wide circle on a dark theatre stage, many holding scripts as they take part in a workshop exercise.

Three participants stand in a dim rehearsal space, with two smiling toward someone off camera.

Participants work in pairs across a theatre stage, with one man kneeling and gesturing expressively up at a woman during a workshop exercise.

A smiling participant in glasses faces a person in a cap, while others behind them watch and hold scripts in the rehearsal room.

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